Ottawa Business Journal

Opinion: The Asian powerhouses: All they’re cracked up to be?

Techopia

Wendy Dobson, Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape The 21st Century, University of Toronto Press, 2009. One of the major economic stories of

Opinion: UPDATE: HBS marketing a new business model?

Ottawa

It’s always somewhat of an annoyance for a company when “bankruptcy” is the second-most searched term related to it on Google. But that’s the unfortunate

Opinion: A flicker of hope for a lean promenade

Retail

Finally, there’s some terrific news for Sparks Street, the downtown thoroughfare that once throbbed with life but which has been deadly-dull for decades. As initially

Opinion: Synergizing solutions into revectored deliverables

Ottawa

As the rubber hits the road on a new year, I think we’re all in need of some real blue-sky thinking – perhaps even a

Opinion: Jim Treliving and the art of the deal

Ottawa

Jim Treliving was just a young lad, growing up beneath the big sky of the Canadian Prairies, when he got his first lesson in business.

Opinion: The Indians are coming … wait, they’re already here

Ottawa

You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about the Indian firm Tata, that country’s largest multinational company and mega-brand. No doubt some of you first

Opinion: I love it when a plan comes together

Techopia

John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through To a Better Business Model, Harvard Business Press, 2009. It’s an old military adage

Opinion: Israel: ‘We are the startup nation’

Canada & World

My first foray into the world of Israeli ingenuity came, oddly enough, not on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean but in the cool breezes

Opinion: Credit freeze or media frenzy?

Canada & World

It went little-reported in the wider media when released a few weeks back, but a recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers contained some rather intriguing insights. The

Opinion: Battle of the greedy TV companies?

Techopia

If Canada’s television giants have their way, many viewers will probably pay even more than they do now to watch their favourite TV shows. The